Nintendo To Produce A Sequel To The Wizard
After several proposals to turn some of Nintendo's most beloved video game franchises into full-length motion pictures have floundered, Nintendo's new film studio, the aptly named Nintendo Film Studios (Doki Doki Film 8 do Nintendo in Japan) have finally greenlighted the first movie to be produced under the label A sequel to the 1988 Fred Savage vehicle, the video-game themed The Wizard.
The announcement was delivered during a glitzy North Hollywood press conference, in which atendees received not one, but two bottles of water to quench their thirst. Nintendo Film Studios' VP Harold Robinson delivered the announcement to a gathering of reporters. "We believe that this sequel will be as big a success as the first installment. Let's not forget that the Nintendo Power Glove was prominently featured in the first movie. Without exaggerating, I'd have to say that 90-99% of Power Glove sales were directly influenced by moviegoers who observed the apparatus in the movie. Who knows what kind of a positive impact the sequel could have on such underappreciated pieces of hardware, such as the e-Reader and the 25th anniversary reissue of the original Game & Watch?"
Robinson described the plot of the sequel as being similar to the first movie: A young boy travels cross-country to compete in the ultimate video game tournament. When asked who would play the boy, Robinson replied: "We've actually contacted Fred Savage's agent to ask if he wants to reprise his original role. We think he still doesn't look a day over 10 years old"
Near the end of the conference, a reporter for the entertainment website IGN asked "What? So no Zelda movie!?" and stormed out, apparently not expecting an answer to his question.
Another representative for Nintendo Film Studios also commented that should this movie become a success, they already have two more movies with videogame themes in the pipeline: "Dance Dance Like A Virgin, Super Mario" - a romantic comedy based on Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix starring Madonna and a digitized version of Mario; and "Lurking in the Water" a pyschological thriller about an octopus charged with raping several women, apparently based off of Kid Icarus.